Title: Tantrika Kosmocentria

Gender: Male

Age: 51

Location: Hebden Bridge, England

When I was 24 years of age, I woke up and that was the beginning of the rest of my life.

I spent the next 27 years exploring what it is to be fully human.

As a result, I am now a psychotherapist and a yoga teacher and experience the Kosmos through Ken Wilber's Integral lens. I practice Mahamudra meditation, pranayama and ashtanga yoga daily. My body and mind feel as clean as the inside of my mouth does after brushing my teeth.

I am the Founding Director of the Calderdale Yoga Centre which provides yoga and zen classes/workshops for the folk who live hereabouts and beyond. The opening of this centre is the first stage of a three-stage plan to connect the regions personal growth practitioners within an integral framework.

www.calderdaleyoga.co.uk
www.jonpearsontherapy.co.uk

I live abundantly in a terraced house nestled in the beauty of Calderdale in the Pennine hills of the northern UK. Tam, my partner of nine years lives with me along with our  rescue dog Poppy. My ex-wife Louise and 4 year old James lives next door to us and my son Lewis who is now 12 lives in and out of our two houses with Bella, his Lhasa Apso pup. There are a couple of cats and three kittens and some mice also in the picture. We all get along extremely well after molto processing of the events which got us here which is testament to the power of human maturity and insight. I believe that these qualities are essential in this postmodern era of complexity and ambivalence.

I work three days a week at the Manchester Institute for Psychotherapy seeing individuals and couples and running groups. I've done this for twelve years. I also supervise and train psychotherapists. I spend the other four days coparenting, studying, meditating, walking the woodlands, preparing to write academia and sipping morning cappucinos in trendy cafes with other portfolio folk who work wierd hours.

This all sounds very idyllic I grant you, and to some extent it is because I have worked with dilligence to cultivate my embodiment over the last quarter century. Of course, each day arrives with fresh opportunities for me to get sucked into victim mode and I'm reasonably accomplished at avoiding that sort of contraction using Lojong, Nonviolent Communication, Transactional Analysis, Neurolinguistic Programming and Verbal Aikido. Sometimes, though, I get sucked into that Persecutor-Victim-Rescuer triangle and flounder for hours in shame, annoyance and self-pity. Tam or Lewis or Louise usually slap me in the face with a wet fish in these ever-more-rare instances and I usually wake up quite readily.

I have no plans to retire. I would like to run a yoga class, see my two or three clients for closure, enjoy a fine meal with my extended family and offer a toast to Shiva with a blueberry smoothie on the day of my death some fifty years hence.


I welcome contact from like-minded folk.

And if you read this far, I thank you for your time and energy.

Jon x

May your life be your retreat.

 

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